shrewd

Exactly a year since he unveiled his first collection at Chanel, Franco-Belgian designer Matthieu Blazy has proved himself to be a shrewd and hugely profitable recruit by the family-owned French fashion label.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Greengrass surrounds Garfield with actors who deliver bigger performances, like Jarvis as the brutish but shrewd Tyler, and Bell as the fervent Ball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

She was also a shrewd operator in the notoriously opaque music industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Parton was a successful and shrewd businesswoman, and in 2022 was listed by Forbes as one of America's richest self-made women, external.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

John Faa said, “I never met fiercer. We shall have to fight like tigers. And consult the bear; he’s a shrewd warrior, that one.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

One of Farhadi’s shrewder insights here is that institutions, perhaps even more than individuals, have a real stake in turning inspirational stories to their financial and reputational advantage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2022

She proved stronger and shrewder than more experienced rivals, coming through to win in one minute 57.98 seconds.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2021

Someone shrewder could have made better use of its marriage of history and blockbuster cinema to comment on our addiction to violent, explosive versions of American mythmaking.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2021

Their accounts of Kameny’s dismissal and subsequent crusade against the government, while briefer than Cervini’s, are often shrewder in probing Kameny’s motivations and assessing his personal and political development.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2020

Or she won't, a shrewder voice in his head suggested.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Tinubu is considered one of Nigeria's shrewdest politicians and his All Progressives Congress controls the national assembly and 31 of 36 powerful governorships.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

That’s the hypothesis of one of the world’s shrewdest and most respected analysts of geopolitics and energy, Cambridge University political economy professor Helen Thompson.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 2026

Klein Halevi is one of the shrewdest and most thoughtful analysts of Israeli politics and society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Ashworth's glittering reputation as one of the game's shrewdest operators meant he was regarded as a prized, crucial acquisition but left in December 2024 after only five months at Old Trafford.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

Of all the gods he was the shrewdest and most cunning; in fact he was the Master Thief, who started upon his career before he was a day old.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton